Power Washing and Roof Cleaning Forum

Liberty SoftWash · PWS Vender

Making Working On A Roof Safer

Art O · Approved Exterior Cleaner

If you where to put a permanently installed tie off on a homeowners roof and charged for it and the next guy came along a used it and it failed. Wouldn't that make your company liable for it?

Liberty SoftWash · PWS Vender

It would be installed and maintained by the homeowner.

lkendall · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Art O wrote:
If you where to put a permanently installed tie off on a homeowners roof and charged for it and the next guy came along a used it and it failed. Wouldn't that make your company liable for it?

BINGO!

and I wouldn't attach myself to a d-ring that the homeowner installs/repairs..

Liberty SoftWash · PWS Vender

When I say homeowner, I mean install by a contractor and maybe every two yrs get it inpested.

Art O · Approved Exterior Cleaner

That sounds like an easy install, but its not. You would have to crawl in the attic and beef up a rafter or rafters. Maybe sandwitch a rafter with 2x8. Then you need to make sure the bolts catch the wood in the correct spot. I'm not sure I would trust someone else's work hanging off a roof.

Fred W · Guru

There are several after market systems that can be used today and without much trouble. I have often wondered why our government has not mandated anchors being installed on every new or re-roof job.

Not that I'm for the government telling me what to do but they always stick their nose where it does not belong.

The government is always saying we need to make things safer....."Hey, lets take guns away from honest hardworking Americans so the world will be safer" They spend so much time on things like gun control when a mandate like Eric is suggesting makes way more sense.

I would certainly use one installed by someone else.......I would just be sure to inspect in myself and my intention would be to never use it. In other words.....I would not be using it to hold me up.....just there in case I fall.

BlueRidge · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Eric, I have thought the same thing many times. So easy to do with new construction and re roof. I'm surprised insurance companies haven't started this one. A lot of the code changes come from insurance companies. It just makes sense!

Dunrite · Veteran Member

Most things that make sense don't get done

I think Art nails it hwen he asks who is responsible if their is a failure

As a contractor, i wouldn't install one if im going to be potentially involved in some litigation down the road

I mean most likely the onus is on the nest guy who goes up there but im not chancing it

AC Lockyer · Approved Exterior Cleaner

We are just really pushing the training of cleaning roofs from the,

1. Ground.
2. Ladder.
3. Water Fed Pole Gun. (http://www.jracenstein.com/item/150-0951/softwash-waterfed-pole-gun-acme/default.asp?sort=ydjry)

In these cases we have found that @ 95% of the time a roof can be cleaned without getting on the roof.

AC

Dunrite · Veteran Member

AC Lockyer wrote:
We are just really pushing the training of cleaning roofs from the,

1. Ground.
2. Ladder.
3. Water Fed Pole Gun. (http://www.jracenstein.com/item/150-0951/softwash-waterfed-pole-gun-acme/default.asp?sort=ydjry)

In these cases we have found that @ 95% of the time a roof can be cleaned without getting on the roof.

AC

I really think this is the thought process that should be pushed- the idea to do everything from the ladder/gutterline

weather its with a waterfed pole or not IMO the safest method to clean a roof is from a ladder along the gutterline